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Joel Cooper - Masks

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ryuzin_origami: Newbie; Posts: 33; Joined: April 9th, 2008, 2:19 pm

Joel Cooper - Masks

Does anyone know the proper techniques on how to make tessellation masks like Joel cooper? Could someone show me how to do it?

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Re: Joel Cooper - Masks

Post by ahudson » October 20th, 2009, 4:53 am

ryuzin_origami wrote:Does anyone know the proper techniques on how to make tessellation masks like Joel cooper? Could someone show me how to do it?

Well, I'll put it this way-- even after two years of folding tessellations, I still barely managed to reverse-engineer it. I haven't managed to invent one of my own, yet-- at least, not one that was good enough to keep!

As with most tessellations, it's possible to reverse-engineer the model from photos; it just takes a good deal of time and patience. Unfortunately, there's a really big gap in folding level between Eric Gjerde's book and Joel's tessellation masks; so until more tessellation books come out the only way to bridge that gap will be reverse-engineering.

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Post by EricGjerde » October 21st, 2009, 11:33 pm

I think it's safe to say that unless a specialist publisher like Origami House decides to subsidize a book on the topic, there will never be any books on how to make masks like Joel's. His technique is seriously complex - having watched him make numerous of these masks, I can attest that it is the sum of years of his experimentation and personal effort. I feel that there is so much to explain and it is complex enough that it will remain very much a specialty of his. I'm actually OK with that, too - I like it that there's this guy with super-high-level skills that makes these unreal works of art that can't be reproduced. I think that's a good thing.

I know that Lang's book on geometric folding and tessellation will cover a lot of the nuts and bolts about tessellation constructions, but I think using the techniques to create artistic models (as Joel does) will remain a personal endeavour which few will accomplish successfully.

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Post by chesslo » March 2nd, 2010, 9:11 am

I am planning on folding this, but I am not sure on how to divide the whole hexagon into thirds! can anyone that have folded this help?

Thanks in advance!

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Post by M Deutsch » March 2nd, 2010, 3:30 pm

Before folding in half (or after, it's just easier before) fold into thirds by making an 'S' shape with the hexagon and squashing it. This is one of the most accurate methods of dividing into thirds and leaves no extraneous creases.

- Matthew